She plays Jean, a no-nonsense lawyer tasked with preventing Speedman’s obsessive character Matthew from getting himself thrown in jail for, among other things, cyberstalking the entire town. “It wasn’t a very big part, but I wanted it.”Īlongside her scene partner, Scott Speedman, Cross quickly became one of this season’s most exciting guest stars after a trailer revealed that the onetime Bree Van de Kamp would mix with Joe Goldberg and Love Quinn (now Quinn-Goldberg) in Madre Linda-this season’s fictional Northern Californian suburb. “I actually put myself on tape for it,” she said. When the opportunity arose to join the show as a guest star, the veteran actress seized her moment. But then she started watching and, like Joe Goldberg himself, became a little bit obsessed. “I was like, ‘Oh, he’s just watching some guy prey on beautiful women-I don’t know if I’m interested,” the Desperate Housewives star told The Daily Beast during a recent interview. You can either cringe at it or you can laugh, but I felt like it was put in my lap for a reason.Marcia Cross was not exactly enamored with Netflix’s You when she first discovered her husband watching it. “I can go on about the anus, how important it is, how great it is. “What are the odds that I am playing the most uptight character on TV and then I get the kind of cancer that nobody wants to talk about?! I wish I could say it was bold, but I felt like I didn’t have a choice: I am sure that people are alive because of me or my friends who started the HPV alliance,” she noted. She is also proud of her role as the anal cancer spokesperson, the role that nobody wanted. The complicated relationship between Bree and her son Andrew turned her into a “gay icon,” observed the moderator. “I was getting on a plane to do ‘Oprah.’ That’s when you know.” Marc hasn’t really seen ‘Melrose Place,’ which was probably a good thing, and said: ‘I want you to read for Bree.’ It changed my life, for sure,” she said, recalling the exact moment when she knew the show was a hit. I wanted to adopt a baby and be at home with. “I wanted a family and I didn’t have a partner. Luckily, “Everwood” and “Desperate Housewives” followed, although Cross was interested in the part of Mary Alice at first, ultimately played by Brenda Strong. Nobody wanted to do anything with Van Gogh when he was alive! It’s no small thing, being an artist. “The one thing you always have to do is endure. “If you do something well and you are known for it, the industry goes: ‘She can only do that.’ My agents at the time couldn’t get me a part that would be normal. When I look at it now, it’s my life in grief.” I remember being thrown a lifeline, because I was grieving so terribly. “I lost somebody in the middle of it, then they called me asking if I wanted to go back. The role of Kimberly Shaw on “Melrose Place” brought her stability, she said. They call us the outliers, but we are really the leaders.” “No one is going to say: ‘What a great idea, to go into arts.’ You don’t get a lot of credit for being an artist or for being different. I was in New York!,” she laughed, urging young actors to persevere. “I saw these things going up and down and went: ‘I think these are cockroaches.’ Then I went to the communal bathroom and went: ‘I think these are hookers.’ I was thrilled. The actor, more recently seen in the likes of “Quantico” and Netflix’s “You,” also discussed her earlier roles, studies at Juilliard and even her “tiny little room” at YMCA. But I remember that night, sitting with the girls and Marc. I crawled to the finish line in terms of my physicality. “I was exhausted because I had worked all these years, I gave birth to twins, my husband had cancer for a little while. I will leave it to the writers, to figure out something fabulous.”Ĭross, welcomed with a standing ovation, admitted she still hasn’t seen the last episode of the show created by Marc Cherry, which ended in 2012.
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